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Cefepime-induced encephalopathy
  1. Tsuneaki Kenzaka1,2,
  2. Masanori Matsumoto2
  1. 1Division of Community Medicine and Career Development, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
  2. 2Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo Prefectural Kaibara Hospital, Tanba, Japan
  1. Correspondence to Professor Tsuneaki Kenzaka, smile.kenzaka{at}jichi.ac.jp

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A 61-year-old man has been unable to leave his bed since being diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the age of 2 years. He is fed via a gastrostoma and has previously contracted aspiration pneumonitis three times. He has had no history of seizures or myoclonic movements until the time of hospitalisation. He visited a physician with complaints of fever lasting for 1 week and a cough that had been increasing in severity. He was diagnosed with pneumonia and treated with 100 mg oral cefcapene three times a day. As his condition did not improve, he was referred to our hospital for treatment. A chest X-ray and CT scan revealed abscess …

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